Nevada County’s Congressman indicates he was never supportive of 21 far-right representatives in his party on shutting down the federal government. On Friday, Kevin Kiley had voted for a 30-day stopgap spending bill sponsored by most Republicans, who are in the majority in the House, even though it had little chance of passing…

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The funding fight has only focused on a relatively small part of the six-point-four trillion dollar U.S. budget. Lawmakers were never considering cuts to popular benefit programs, like Social Security and Medicare. But Kiley says progress on border issues has always been important…

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Spending cuts, along with providing more funding to aid Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, have also been sticking points.